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fore also the body is supremely delighted with the sleep, 

 energizing this the pleasure. 



XV. 



OF HERMES (Stolceus, Physica, 750 ; Meineke, i. 206 ; 

 Patrit., 516). 



THERE is then that pre-existent (a) beside all the En- 

 tities and those really Entities (&). For there is that pre- 

 existent through which is the Essentiality (c), that pre- 

 dicated of the entire Whole (d) : common with the intel- 

 ligibles of things really Entities and of the Entities as 

 considered by themselves (e). But the contraries to these, 

 in another way again, themselves are by themselves. But 

 Nature is sensible Essence, having in itself all sensible 

 things. But in the midst of these are intellectual (/) and 

 sensible Gods. The things intellectual are those having part 

 with the intelligible (y) [Gods], but things of opinion Qi) 

 those having communion with the sensible Gods. But 

 these are (i) images of intelligences ; like as Sun is image 

 of The Creator God in Heaven. For as He created the 

 Whole (&), so the Sun creates the animals and generates 

 plants and presides over the winds. 1 



The next extract in Stobseus (754) is entitled " Hermes, 

 from the Aphrodite " (Meineke, i. 207) ; but the very title 

 and the contents prove that he was not the author of it. 



(a) TO irpo ov. (6) orrug ovruv. (c) 



(d) yj xadfaov. (e) xotd' socvroe, voovpti/au. (f) 



(g) vQ/rruif. (li) rtx. ^otffroc. (i) 

 (k) TO o'Aofr. 



1 This Excerpt is obscure and probably imperfect. It is not men- 

 tioned in the editions of Stobseus from what work of Hermes it is 

 extracted. 



